Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.
Rice has unveiled the Gateway Project, a transformative initiative on university-owned land in Rice Village that will create a seamless, pedestrian-friendly corridor linking the campus to the heart of the Village, while reimagining the west side of campus anchored by the renovation of Rice Stadium.
Rice University has signed an $8.1 million cooperative agreement to lead the United States Space Force University Consortium/Space Strategic Technology Institute 4 (SSTI), called the Center for Advanced Space Sensing Technologies (CASST) at Rice.
Amid unprecedented enrollment growth, Rice will open its 12th residential college, the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao College — referred to as Chao College — made possible by a generous gift from the Chao family foundation.
The building consolidates Rice’s visual arts programs, long scattered across campus, into a single state-of-the-art space that emphasizes collaboration, transparency and public engagement.
Rice opens Sarofim Hall, a transformative new home for the visual arts
At Rice University, we share values that are essential to our success as a healthy community. Those values guide our decisions and behaviors and shape Rice’s culture.
Rice scientists have developed a new drug delivery platform that could make it easier for patients to take their medications and may even boost drug efficacy.
Rice University aims to elevate our research and innovation to the highest levels of human knowledge and ingenuity. We are leveraging our world-class research community, dynamic interdisciplinary institutes, and partnerships with leading public and private organizations to activate our research, create breakthrough solutions, and make vital contributions to human well-being.